Saturday, May 22, 2010

Pakistan has un-blocked YouTube, after the company removed the "blasphemous" videos from its website. The access was cut down earlier in the day but restored after the company “taken off from their website highly offensive blasphemous footage,” the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said.

But Facebook would remain blocked till May 31st as the decision was made by the Lahore High Court to shut down the website till May 31. YouTube was previously blocked in Pakistan on Sunday Feb 24, 2007 in an attempt to block just one video from its website but it has caused a global blackout of YouTube for more than two hours as Pakistan has mistakenly hijack the entire web server of YouTube website.

Other countries that have temporarily blocked access to YouTube include China, Turkey and Thailand.